SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 55 34 71
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.93% 5.71% 6.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.75% 18.48% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 50
10th Percentile £375 £350 £371
25th Percentile £422 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £564
90th Percentile £575 £678 £676
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £51.57
25th Percentile - £25.26 £55.79
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £66.64
Median % change year-on-year - -59.29% +11.06%
75th Percentile - £28.99 £77.55
90th Percentile - £50.30 £81.81
South West median hourly rate £55.34 £27.13 £48.75
% change year-on-year +104.02% -44.36% -18.75%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 265 184 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.56% 30.92% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 78 165
10th Percentile £325 £353 £300
25th Percentile £411 £406 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £598 £575
90th Percentile £648 £678 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 46 51
10th Percentile £61.25 £59.38 £52.50
25th Percentile - £61.63 £58.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £68.75 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +1.96% -1.92%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 5 (9.09%) Skype for Business
2 3 (5.45%) Apache
2 3 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) AWS
2 14 (25.45%) Power Platform
3 13 (23.64%) Azure
3 13 (23.64%) GCP
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.45%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.45%) SaaS
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub
6 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) DHCP
1 5 (9.09%) DNS
1 5 (9.09%) Skype
1 5 (9.09%) Unified Communications
2 3 (5.45%) 2G
2 3 (5.45%) 5G
2 3 (5.45%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.64%) 4G
3 2 (3.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) Power BI
2 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.73%) BigQuery
3 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.91%) Star Schema
5 5 (9.09%) Big Data
5 5 (9.09%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.45%) MySQL
6 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.64%) ClickHouse
7 2 (3.64%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.82%) Metadata
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) DBeaver
1 5 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (32.73%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Local Government
6 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.64%) Publishing
8 1 (1.82%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Senior
2 12 (21.82%) Data Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Analytics Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Applications Support
5 5 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Support Officer
5 5 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Applications Support
7 3 (5.45%) Application Security Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) ETL Tester
7 3 (5.45%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (7.27%) React
3 3 (5.45%) Node.js
3 3 (5.45%) REST
3 3 (5.45%) SOAP
4 2 (3.64%) .NET
4 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.64%) JAX-RS
4 2 (3.64%) JMS
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.64%) Web Services
4 2 (3.64%) XML
4 2 (3.64%) XSD
5 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (1.82%) Pandas
5 1 (1.82%) PySpark
5 1 (1.82%) RESTful
5 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Replication
2 5 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.09%) PKI
3 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.45%) IoT
5 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.64%) NB-IoT
5 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Windows
1 5 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Agile
2 17 (30.91%) Analytics
3 14 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (23.64%) ETL
5 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (18.18%) DevOps
8 8 (14.55%) AI
8 8 (14.55%) Application Security
8 8 (14.55%) Change Management
8 8 (14.55%) ITIL
8 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.55%) Validation
9 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
10 6 (10.91%) Data Science
10 6 (10.91%) Dimensional Modelling
10 6 (10.91%) Storytelling
11 5 (9.09%) Containerisation
11 5 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) Python
2 6 (10.91%) Java
3 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.64%) C#
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.64%) Go
6 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) Degree
3 5 (9.09%) CCNA
3 5 (9.09%) CCNP
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 5 (9.09%) MCSE
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.73%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) SCCM
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
1 5 (9.09%) WSUS
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Grafana
4 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle
3 7 (12.73%) Google
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco
4 5 (9.09%) Databricks
4 5 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 5 (9.09%) Splunk
4 5 (9.09%) Veeam
4 5 (9.09%) VMware
5 3 (5.45%) NEC
6 2 (3.64%) Blue Prism
6 2 (3.64%) BMC
6 2 (3.64%) Remedy
6 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.82%) Facebook
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce